RULES OF PLAY
Welcome to the middle of the 22nd century. After 300 years of excess, denial, and recklessness, rising water levels engulfed the last pieces of dry land. Fighting for their lives, survivors have settled above sea level in colonies that grow ever higher, sustained by remnants of the past recovered from the depths. As a member of the Otys colony, send your best divers into the depths of the ocean to retrieve the most useful resources.
Contract Card Spaces Colony Display Sponsor Tile Spaces Reward Token Spaces Store Score Track COLONY PLAYER BOARD Mechanic Track Diver Tile Spaces X Key Token Space Key Token Spaces Surface Below surface Resource Spaces Reward Token Spaces Hacker Track 3
Take a player board of a color of your choice and place it in front of you; this represents your search zone. Take a set of 5 Key tokens (numbered 1 to 5) matching your color and place each token in each level space of your player board (i.e. place the token numbered “1” on level 1, the token numbered “2” on level 2, etc.). Slide them to the left so that they cover the number of each level. Then, take the X Key token matching your color and place it on its space on your player board.
Place the Colony board in the center of the play area. Sort the Credit tokens, the Battery tokens and resources into piles to form the supply. Place all Reward tokens in the bag. Then, draw 2 tokens for each level of the board and place them with their Immediate Effect side faceup on their spaces on the Colony Display. Randomly place the 5 Sponsor tiles on the Colony Display, to the left of the Colony board. Note: Sponsor tiles are double-sided; a Basic side and an Advanced side (showing a ).
Thanks to your team of divers, you explore the ruins of sunken cities to nd resources that will help the colony prosper. To win, you must be the most efficient player: when a player reaches 18 Prestige points on the Score track, the game ends at the end of the round and the player with the most Prestige points wins the game. During the game, you gain Prestige points when you: • complete contracts, by gathering the necessary resources. • upgrade your diver’s equipment. • sell resources to the Store.
STEP 3 X KEY TOKENS Instead of choosing one of your available Key tokens, you can spend one X Key token (your own or a neutral one). If you do, instead of following Step 1, place the X Key token on your player board to the left of the diver you want to activate. Then, you must update the Colony Display by moving the Sponsor tile from level 5 to level 1 and shifting all other Sponsor tiles down one level. You may now use the effect of the Sponsor tile located on the same level as the X Key token.
COMPLETE A CONTRACT STEP 2 As soon as you gather on a single level of your search zone all the resources required to complete a Contract card in your hand (private contracts) or above the board (public contracts), you may complete that contract. Completing a Contract does not count as an action. You can complete multiple contracts during the same turn if able.
SPONSOR TILES Sponsor Tiles are double-sided. The front is the Basic side that we recommend using for your rst ) is the Advanced side that we recommend using once you are few games. The back (showing a familiar with the game. In this case, randomly determine which side will be used for each Sponsor tile during setup. Note: The combination of Sponsor tiles greatly affects gameplay. Before the start of the game, take some time to study each tile’s effect.
At the start of the game, each diver has one basic skill. During the game, you can upgrade your divers’ equipment by ipping your Diver tiles to their Upgraded side. The Upgraded side of each Diver tile represents the diver in upgraded diving gear and an improved version of the diver’s basic effect. ES DIVER TIL Note: • Each time you use the effect of Sponsor tile #4 to ip a diver to its Upgraded side, gain 1 Prestige point.
SPY ENGINEER BASIC SIDE EXPLORER BASIC SIDE UPGRADED SIDE BASIC SIDE UPGRADED SIDE UPGRADED SIDE The Spy allows you to get private contracts and activate your opponents’ divers. The Engineer allows you to improve your two Technicians. This exploring robot allows you to gain Reward tokens from the Colony Display. Basic Side When activated, the Spy allows you to either draw Contract cards, or activate a diver belonging to the opponent directly on your left or right.
REWARD TOKENS Immediate Effects (front) You can use these effects via the Explorer’s effect or Sponsor tile #2 (advanced side). Note: The background color on the front side indicates which permanent effect is on the back: orange (2 Credits) or green (1 Prestige point). Permanent Effects (back) You can use these effects each time you complete a contract at the same level as this token. You can place these tokens on your player board only via the Explorer’s effect.
